The Big Bang-XPower is another exceptional mainboard from the Big Bang series with astonishing performance and reliability. MSI is confident that the Big Bang-XPower will again be selling like hotcakes to users worldwide.

MSI exclusive Military Class design comes equipped with the industry’s highest performance components. Developed with elite engineering skills and top-notch materials, Big Bang-XPower will deliver unbeatable reliability, letting you worry less about your hardware and focus more on your game.

The Big Bang-XPower can allow users to install up to 4 graphics cards with ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU support to achieve unbeatable scalable performance. Enjoy the highest frame rates at high-definition resolution and 3D gaming on multiple monitors with supported games.

The Big Bang-XPower offers Quantum Wave™ Audio processing which utilizes THX TruStudio technology and EAX® ADVANCED HDTM 5.0, the latest version of the EAX Environmental Audio standard, for the fullest audio experience for games, music and movies.

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| CPU (Max Support) | i7 |
| FSB / Hyper Transport Bus | 6.4GT/s |
| Chipset | Intel® X58+ICH10R |
| DDR2 Memory | N/A |
| DDR3 Memory | DDR3 800/1066/1333*/1600*/1800*/2133* (OC) |
| Memory Channel | Triple |
| DIMM Slots | 6 |
| Max Memory (GB) | 24 |
| PCI-Ex16 | 6 |
| PCI-E Gen | Gen2 (2x16, 2x8, 2x4) |
| PCI-Ex4 | N/A |
| PCI-Ex1 | 1 |
| PCI | N/A |
| IDE | N/A |
| SATAIII | 2 |
| SATAII | 6 |
| RAID | 0/1/5/10 |
| LAN | 10/100/1000*2 |
| TPM | 1 |
| USB 3.0 ports (Rear) | 2 |
| USB 2.0 ports (Rear) | 6 |
| Audio ports (Rear) | 6+Coaxial SPDIF/Optical SPDIF |
| Serial ports (Rear) | N/A |
| Parallel ports (Rear) | N/A |
| 1394 ports (Rear) | 1 |
| eSATA | 2 |
| Display Port | N/A |
| VGA | N/A |
| HDMI | N/A |
| DVI | N/A |
| VGA Max Share Memory (MB) | N/A |
| DirectX | N/A |
| Form Factor | ATX |
| DrMOS | Y |
| APS | Y |
| Sideport Memory | N/A |
| SLI | Y |
| 3-way SLI | Y |
| Hybrid SLI | N/A |
| CrossFire | Y |
| Hybrid CrossFire | N/A |
| D-LED2 | Y |
| Green Power Genie | Y |